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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
To: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: locking changes in tty broke low latency feature
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 15:44:59 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <lefpdr$br$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: alpine.DEB.2.02.1402232330190.21251@ionos.tec.linutronix.de

On 2014-02-23, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Feb 2014, Peter Hurley wrote:

>> Using Alan's idea to mock up a latency test, I threw together a test
>> jig using two computers running 3.14-rc1 and my fwserial driver
>> (modified to not aggregrate writes) in raw mode where the target does
>> this:
>
> This is a complete pointless test.

No, it isn't.  It tested exactly what it was supposed to test: latency
between the driver pushing bytes to the line discipline and user-space
read waking up.

> Use a bog standard 8250 UART on the PC and connect a microcontroller
> on the other end which serves you an continous stream of data at
> 115200 Baud.
>
> There is no way you can keep up with that without the low latency
> option neither on old and nor on new machines if you have enough
> other stuff going on in the system.

That makes no sense.  Enabling the low-latency option historically
made it _harder_ to keep up since it caused more overhead in the form
buffer processing and context switches.

-- 
Grant Edwards               grant.b.edwards        Yow! Look into my eyes and
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-02-24 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-18  9:38 locking changes in tty broke low latency feature Stanislaw Gruszka
2014-02-18  9:57 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-02-18 22:12 ` Peter Hurley
2014-02-19 13:03   ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2014-02-19 16:55     ` Grant Edwards
2014-02-19 17:38       ` Peter Hurley
2014-02-19 18:12         ` Grant Edwards
2014-02-19 18:42           ` Peter Hurley
2014-02-19 19:17         ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-02-19 20:22           ` Peter Hurley
2014-02-19 21:42             ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-02-20  2:19               ` Peter Hurley
2014-02-21 15:39                 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-02-21 15:58                   ` Peter Hurley
2014-02-21 16:31                     ` Grant Edwards
2014-02-19 23:06     ` Hal Murray
2014-02-19 23:35       ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-02-20  2:55       ` Peter Hurley
2014-02-20  4:16         ` Greg KH
2014-02-20 18:16         ` Peter Hurley
2014-02-20 19:33           ` Grant Edwards
2014-02-20 22:06             ` Peter Hurley
2014-02-23 22:33           ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-02-24  0:23             ` Peter Hurley
2014-02-24 13:23             ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-02-24 15:44             ` Grant Edwards [this message]
2014-02-20 21:55         ` Hal Murray
2014-02-20 22:14           ` Grant Edwards
2014-02-21 15:43             ` One Thousand Gnomes

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